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The Devil Finds Work: An Essay by James Baldwin: Used
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- Condition
- Publication Date
- 2011-09-13
- Pages
- 144
- ISBN
- 0307275957
- Book Title
- Devil Finds Work : an Essay
- Item Length
- 8in
- Publisher
- Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
- Publication Year
- 2011
- Format
- Trade Paperback
- Language
- English
- Item Height
- 0.4in
- Genre
- Biography & Autobiography, Literary Criticism, Literary Collections, Performing Arts
- Topic
- American / African American, Personal Memoirs, Screenplays, Film / History & Criticism, Essays
- Item Width
- 5.2in
- Item Weight
- 5.2 Oz
- Number of Pages
- 144 Pages
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Baldwin's personal reflections on movies gathered here in a book-length essay are also a probing appraisal of American racial politics. Offering an incisive look at racism in American movies and a vision of America's self-delusions and deceptions, Baldwin challenges the underlying assumptions in such films as In the Heat of the Night , Guess Who's Coming to Dinner , and The Exorcist . Here are our loves and hates, biases and cruelties, fears and ignorance reflected by the films that have entertained us and shaped our consciousness. And here too is the stunning prose of a writer whose passion never diminished his struggle for equality, justice, and social change.
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Publisher
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
ISBN-10
0307275957
ISBN-13
9780307275950
eBay Product ID (ePID)
102859477
Product Key Features
Book Title
Devil Finds Work : an Essay
Format
Trade Paperback
Language
English
Topic
American / African American, Personal Memoirs, Screenplays, Film / History & Criticism, Essays
Publication Year
2011
Genre
Biography & Autobiography, Literary Criticism, Literary Collections, Performing Arts
Number of Pages
144 Pages
Dimensions
Item Length
8in
Item Height
0.4in
Item Width
5.2in
Item Weight
5.2 Oz
Additional Product Features
Lc Classification Number
Ps3552.A45z515 2011
Reviews
"If Van Gogh was our 19th-century artist-saint, James Baldwin is our 20th-century one." -Michael Ondaatje "The best essayist in this country - a man whose power has always been in his reasoned, biting sarcasm; his insistence on removing layer by layer the hardened skin with which Americans shield themselves from their country." -The New York Times Book Review "It will be hard for the reader to see these films in quite the same way again." -The Christian Science Monitor "He has taken the old subject of race and made it even more personal probing perhaps more deeply than ever before into American racial practices." -The Nation "A provocative discussion." -Saturday Review, "If Van Gogh was our 19th-century artist-saint, James Baldwin is our 20th-century one." --Michael Ondaatje "The best essayist in this country -- a man whose power has always been in his reasoned, biting sarcasm; his insistence on removing layer by layer the hardened skin with which Americans shield themselves from their country." --The New York Times Book Review "It will be hard for the reader to see these films in quite the same way again." --The Christian Science Monitor "He has taken the old subject of race and made it even more personal probing perhaps more deeply than ever before into American racial practices." --The Nation "A provocative discussion." --Saturday Review, "If Van Gogh was our 19th-century artist-saint, James Baldwin is our 20th-century one." --Michael Ondaatje "The best essayist in this country--a man whose power has always been in his reasoned, biting sarcasm; his insistence on removing layer by layer the hardened skin with which Americans shield themselves from their country." -- The New York Times Book Review "It will be hard for the reader to see these films in quite the same way again." -- The Christian Science Monitor "He has taken the old subject of race and made it even more personal probing perhaps more deeply than ever before into American racial practices." -- The Nation "A provocative discussion." -- Saturday Review
Copyright Date
2011
Lccn
2011-456826
Dewey Decimal
814/.54
Intended Audience
Trade
Series
Vintage International Ser.
Dewey Edition
23
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